From The OHS Book of Organ Poems

"The Organ", by George Ashdown Audsley

The Organ--grandest instrument the hand

Of man has  placed in Music's galaxy:

In which all Nature's wondrous sounds are linked

In golden chains of countless harmonies.

Responsive to the touch of man's weak hands

As if a giant's fingers swept its keys

And called concordant voices from the depths,

The diapason of the storm-struck sea,

The thunder's peal, the wind's wild whistling wail,

The songs of swift-winged warblers in the air,

And the soft sighing of the ambient breeze.

Temple of Tone art thou! The shrine supreme

Of Sound's mysterious powers and richest gifts.

God-given thought alone could have inspired

The human mind to frame so grand work;

Great Organ--Monarch of all Instruments!

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